KNEW 'ER WAY ABOUT.

NZ Truth, Issue 580, 29 July 1916, Page 2

KNEW 'ER WAY ABOUT.

They were two Wellington working girls who were' robbed of their health by tho sweater In the > factory, and of their alleged - ''wealth** by the timepayment costume fakir. Said the girl with the sponge cloth suit, "Yals, an' we went Into' th' old girl's sittln' room an' we paid her as we went In an' she put the two half-dollars what me an' Elsie gey' her on the tnantleshelf. She told Elsie, first, an' do you know she's gain' Uf marry a feller from the country with lots of money an' he's goln' to give her a moter-car for a weddin 1 present. But she didn't toll me nice at all. She reckoned that 1 wouldn't be married for throe years an' that my blowke will not 'aye a lot of money, like Elsie's 'as, but we'd just be comfutable, she said. I don't like 'er at tellln' fortchuns at all. I reckon that Madum Dinkum beats 'er by a street: she always tells me nice. The old girl lit the candle and showed us out and I com last. I was disgustid so I took TClsle down to the plctchera an' whowtid 'er at the Marbul Bar." ''By Joo. you must 'a' bin splashin' out a bit. Half a dollar nt Madum Humbug's an' then you took Elsie to the pictchers an' put her on a nice cream. I 'ope yer llvin 1 'onest," said the girl with the Jam-pot hat and her hands stained from the dying room. "Oh, get down to me. I a'ln't no mug." nald tho sponge cloth. "I didn't come short, I tell yer. Guess what I did? When Madam Humbug was showin' us out she went first an' as I passed the mantlepicce I , just lifted our dollar into me kick. I reckon an old frowser 'at tella yer furtchun that way ought ta be taken down when ya\get» the chanstl"